BA Work placement - day 1

For my work placement, I'm working for an AV company (which I must refer to as BA).  We've been given a bunch of tasks, some of which I can't talk about yet, so here's the first day's progress.

• Modelled an object that I will animate exploding (no further details allowed yet)
• Looked at abstract animations for inspiration when making short animations for a VJ pack

Maya Dynamics Tutorials 7

Instancing

Direction Control

Size Control

Goals

Simple Drop

Controlled Drop

Maya Dynamics Tutorials 6

Disappearing Coke Can

Active/Passive Rigid Bodies

Maya Final Gather Tutorials

Final Gather

Final Gather

Optimised for Animation

Global Illumination

Software Caustics

Step 1

Composite

MentalRay Caustics

Mia_Material_x

Physical Sun and Sky

Sun Disk Size

Haze Test Strips

Red/Blue Shift Test Strips

Saturation Test Strips

Shadow Smoothing Test Strips

HDR Lighting

Airbase HDR Map

Meadow HDR Map

Street HDR Map

Maya Displacement Tutorials

Maya Software

Mental Ray

Mental Ray (Non SubD)

Mental Ray (SubD)

Mental Ray - NURBS

Maya Depth of Field Tutorials

Camera Controls

Focal Distance = 15

F Stop = 10

Mental Ray Depth of Field

Mia Bokeh Lens

Z Depth Pass

Motion Blur Tutorials

2D Motion Blur

3D Motion Blur

Blade angle 50

Blade angle 180

Mental Ray Motion Blur

No Deformation, Motion Steps = 1

No Deformation, Motion Steps = 5

Primary Render: Rasterizer (Rapid Motion)

Game Character UV layout tutorial

UV Map

Game Character Modelling Tutorial Step 3

 

 

 

Transcription Project - Technical Paper: Tail Rigging

Because the tail is made up of a series of hinges, each with only one degree of freedom, the tail rig has a joint at the pivot of each hinge.

Each joint then had two of the rotate axes locked, so it can only rotate in the same direction as the model hinge.

Add a IK Spline Handle and control clusters

IK Spline Settings

 IK Spline is now constrained so its motion matches the limitations of the model

The same technique was used to rig the spine